Comment by apocalyptic0n3
3 years ago
There's no way it's 5%, but Gmail addresses are a pretty poor indicator to use. Hosting your own email is one of the most difficult sysadmin tasks out there because keeping your server off the blocklists is not trivial; it's becoming more and more common for blocklists to just block entire CIDR ranges if a single IP in it gets blocked. I don't fault anyone for not going down that rabbit hole.
Granted, they could be using Proton or some other alternative. But you still have the same inherent problem that someone else hosts/owns your email data.
Yeah, the easiest way to go is to have a bigger name like Apple or Migadu handle the actual mail server stuff, but use your own custom domain
Of course that doesn't help when you've had a Gmail address for 15 years and can't get rid of it